╟📸screenshots

[past hare]

It's about as far from a natural preset as possible though haha. I know some people will hate it but it's nice to have options

[strange finch]

For sure options are always nice

[past hare]

Sounds good. That was the latest Badland I gave you, yeah

[compact wedge]

some BAS weapons are assets from tarkov if im not wrong

as for the rest, from various games or bought models

[past hare]

They just have that crunchy almost over sharpened look to them that I associate with Tarkov. Great pics, btw

Oh yeah, Beta me up!

[strange finch]

Where can I get that model?

Looks good! Release it!

[strange finch]

Good stuff long boy

[wooden ermine]

im big BONED

thanks bud

this is with phrozacs reshade but hippofilm2 works very nicely too

[jaunty token]

New reed textures for SunRise

[clever badger]

how do u aim like that without a side mount? ive tried some things out but none of it works or is it an extra mod?

[compact wedge]

some favorie screens from 2022

[lunar crane]

You mean reposition? I took it from expedition and replaced same file in efp

[strange finch]

The gun itself

[lunar crane]

I will say for sure little bit later. I have few vanilla gun retextures. I don’t know for sure

[lunar crane]

I think the addon of the author of the "gardener of the zone" it was last what I’m downloaded from moddb. Anyway I’ll check it. Vanilla gun retexture

[strange finch]

Ahh I'll look for it

[runic stag]

do you get 60 fps nwo

[hoary mantle]

NICE

[jaunty token]

Frozen Zone

[wooden ermine]

you gotta have the right weapon mod attached. usually it has a lazer sight but i turned it off for these. if you have more than one sight press v to toggle

[unkempt fern]

what models are those?

[silk fulcrum]

got this wierd shader bug and now gana see what i can take

[wooden ermine]

these are fkn cool, lemonade when shaders give you lemons

[silk fulcrum]

well yes but if you look at the sun it just flashbangs you

[wooden ermine]

that happens irl too so immersive af

[silk fulcrum]

bro is waiting for somthing

THATS WHAT SHE SAID

[rapid comet]

I'll always be the second coming, and thats why I am like jesus

[wooden ermine]

"bro wtf is in beards tea"

[silk fulcrum]

What?

Ohh

It's tea

A anti radiation tea

Tbhi prefor using cigs

[jovial escarp]

[pale falcon]

Hippos + a, phroZacs reshade with my modification and expedition sun

[jaunty token]

you don't need to play with the weather through the debug menu, it's broken weather.

[flat spoke]

Smallest Scar i have ever seen in my life

[clever badger]

My is smaller 🥴😂😂😂

[strange finch]

Is the preset ready?

[delicate sapphire]

@past hare pweaseeeee send it to hippo, it looks amazing :)))

[flint sparrow]

overall looks good really sharp (maybe a little too oversharped) and clear but CA is a no go

[acoustic swallow]

you free to read my DM when u can buddy 🙂

[strange finch]

I dont see it but Im going to work anyway

[past hare]

Hey! No, sorry. Tried to finish it off last night but my game kept crashing because of HD Models, lol. Had to yank it to reach certain areas for playtesting. I mean, I could give it to you now but it's WIP

[strange finch]

Its fine i can wait!

[wooden ermine]

⛈️

[sudden coral]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Vietnam

[spark fractal]

Is this from your new preset? Killing it

[strange finch]

He always is

Reshade king

[past hare]

Yup! Playtesting. Definitely not a clear weathers preset. Gloomy all the way.

[hallow veldt]

@past hare what are the settings to have this quality?

[past hare]

Game settings?

[hallow veldt]

reshade sorry, I'm referring to this screenshots

[past hare]

That's a WIP preset based on Hippo's last Atmospherics release. I think there's a new one though. I haven't playtested if there is a new one.

[rancid vale]

will do as soon as i get it dialed a bit more!

[frosty flume]

fuck you anomaly

AHHH

[shut blade]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/958342885005221898/1066768102928433273/myman.png

i got to him first before svoboda freaks

crisis averted

[spark fractal]

Hyper for this, when I'm home I'm gonna try your settings, basically just need to upscale a little more and cap the frames

[acoustic swallow]

How do u test it out u gotta download anything

[hidden crescent]

bruh lol

[dark brook]

He simply decided to skip time bro leave him be

[delicate sapphire]

Whats the first gun?

Is it vanilla?

[lime gulch]

It was adopted from Gunslinger mod

[delicate sapphire]

Did u add it?

Or is it in gamma?

By default ?

[lime gulch]

No. It's H.A.Z.E. addon

[delicate sapphire]

Ok thx

But is it already in gamma?

Or do I have to install it?

[lime gulch]

Haven't seen adopted guns from Gunslinger for any anomaly assemblies yet. Except haze

[delicate sapphire]

But is it In gamma????

Or no?

[lime gulch]

No.

[delicate sapphire]

You installed it separately?

I would immagine

[lime gulch]

Yes. I spend more hours with assemblies, modpacks and their folders than with game itself lol

[remote meadow]

Those visuals are amazing though

[pale falcon]

hippos + atmospherics + aydin's vanilla summer + expedition sun + phroZacs' reshade (edited)

[strange finch]

If you're using hippos with reshade make sure to have the scope factor changed but I'm sure you know that already king

[pale falcon]

Scope factor is by default 1 in hippos. Should it be something else 🤔?

[vagrant helm]

Is that a different SPAS model??

[gloomy sun]

New Hippo and SSS Look amazing!!!

[rapid comet]

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-walter-white-youre-goddamn-right-gif-14600753

[south jungle]

phroZac + DYN Foggy2

[sinful iris]

@past hare variant of your preset w/ toned down color mapping, reduced CA, reduced lens effect, rtgi skylight+ibl, technicolor...

[grizzled heath]

rtgi Ao is so good for grass

[sinful iris]

r2_sun_details on and r__enable_grass_shadow on are also in use but yeah it usually does a good job of pulling the scene together

[past hare]

You're using the in-game grass shadows too? I've kept them off for fear of losing too many frames. Are they worthwhile?

[sinful iris]

they're definitely worthwhile but you will absolutely lose frames

they also won't work unless you have sun details on

[past hare]

I'm using Pascal's RTGI shader. Worth doubling up on the AO grass shadows?

[sinful iris]

they do different things.. RTGI is handling GI + AO, grass shadows are more like "detailed shadows" in ENB if you know what i mean

best bet is to find a spot with a bunch of grass, enable grass shadows, and then toggle sun details on and off and you'll see what i mean

(via the console)

[past hare]

I'll have a look. So far been pretty happy with how the AO from RTGI has been looking on nearby grass. But I don't remember what in-game grass shadows even look like

[sinful iris]

one aspect of sun details being enabled is that small rocks and other things will shadow cast, however one negative is that you'll sometimes see the bugginess of xray's shadow cascades with it enabled.. recommend using the 3x cascade exes with it always

[mossy mulch]

til that bloodsuckers can climb ladders

[tall sedge]

Is the ground supposed to look like this?

[clever badger]

no

looks modded

what textures ya runnin

[tall sedge]

I think I grabbed gtr textures and also installed Adega

I’m thinking I need to remove the gtr textures? And if so, any safe way to do it without having to reinstall gamma?

[clever badger]

did you install gtr directly instead of using mo2?

[sinful iris]

You have AF too low.

[tall sedge]

Yea, I dropped the files in game data folder

[clever badger]

uh oh

[sinful iris]

Go to console type aniso and tell us what the value is

[clever badger]

his ground textures look off tho no?

[sinful iris]

They look like AF 1

[clever badger]

its like gtrs upscaled vanilla asphalt mixed with some other texture

unless thats what its supposed to look like in gtr

[sinful iris]

But yeah dumping them in the game folder should be fun to cleanup as well. Shouldn’t cause them to look naff though.

[clever badger]

whats with the grey spots tho

wait are those supposed to be water puddles?

[tall sedge]

Do I just type aniso ?

[clever badger]

yes

[sinful iris]

Type it and it’ll auto complete

[tall sedge]

16

[sinful iris]

Well that’s surprising. Because the filtering looks crappy from the screen shot.

I’d focus now on undoing the dump into the game folder and then just use the ADEGA texture set which also includes GTR stuff.

[tall sedge]

Whats the best way to do that?

Sorry I’m still really new to this

[clever badger]

do you have many addons installed?

[tall sedge]

I do

[clever badger]

as in extra from base gamma

[tall sedge]

Maybe 5-6?

[clever badger]

did you also do drag and drop with those files?

you should be using MO2 instead

[tall sedge]

No, through mo2

[clever badger]

oh i see

[sinful iris]

Your best bet is to open the archive that you dumped into your game folder and then compare the files/dirs in it to what’s in the game dir

[clever badger]

does gtr not overwrite files?

[sinful iris]

Taking care to not remove any local files that are supposed to be in the game dir as well.

And yeah if there’s overwrites it’s game over.

[clever badger]

im pretty sure it overwrites

its no biggy tho, all he has to do is redownload anomaly 1.5.1 and the 1.5.2 update

and delete the gamedata folder, reinstall it with the update

its best to install most of your mods with MO2, much much more manageable, else youd have to have backups and such

adega already has GTR built in

so you should just stick to adega

[wheat iris]

damn lurkers

[tall sedge]

@sinful iris @clever badger thank you 🙏 I feel like I’m spending more time modding than playing.

[tall sedge]

If I do this, do I need to reinstall all mods?

[past hare]

HippoS + reshade

[past hare]

HippoS only

[timid merlin]

LOOKS LIKE THE ROAD MOVEI WITH CHRISTOPHER NOOLEN

[past hare]

Kristoff Noolen did a Road movie?

[past hare]

That's some drama up in there! Storm 2?

[timid merlin]

Viggo Mortensen upps ^^

[timid merlin]

ohh sry dont check it already close the game

[clever badger]

BRUH THIS SHIT AINT FAIR I JUST STARTED A NEW RUN

[timid merlin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAHKWeGQiI&ab_channel=Breaking_raven

@strange finch @past hare

[past hare]

https://tenor.com/view/chris-pratt-andy-dwyer-omg-shocked-face-meme-gif-25585329

What I wanna know is how to get HD Models running without issues

[compact wedge]

frends

[past hare]

Lookit them chunguses

[timid merlin]

lel which booth mods are this with the font and quest talking ?

[sinful iris]

No but you should definitely have the installer do gamma data + full install to be safe. It won’t redownload what was already downloaded.

[compact wedge]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/font-for-anomaly-recreated-from-tactical-shooters-farts
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/152dxml-more-guides

[timid merlin]

and this change the vissuals by conversations like the seccond pic ?

[compact wedge]

Visuals?

Only changes font

[timid merlin]

looks like the 2 charackter speaking and you got a third person view on this conversation

[unkempt fern]

I second someone please explain

[runic stag]

spot the freedom i decapitated shortly after taking this screenshot

wow the sunray banding is really apparent in this

[compact wedge]

Ah its just camera adjusted with debug mode

[compact wedge]

Theres many guides

The problem is hd models files itself
there are cases which saves get ruined by corrupted models that makes the game crash with a empty stack trace

Hd models has many model files that you may get lucky and never see a corrupted model spawn and cause problems

Or you may not and get your save corrupted

[unkempt fern]

Oof

Not a problem for you?

[compact wedge]

also some models have unnecesary 4k textures hidden below a crappy helmet/gasmask model textures which makes performance hits

[compact wedge]

I dont play anomaly normally anymore

i just hop in debug and mess around

[unkempt fern]

Ah make sense

So good only for screenshots?

[timid merlin]

i play 40 hours plus and i got only one crash and got it fixed (HD MODELS)

[compact wedge]

depends if you want to risk your time/save

[timid merlin]

no risk no fun

[timid merlin]

storm 2 yes !!!

[ruby agate]

Geez this is pretty. What is Badland?

[past hare]

Thanks. It's a reshade preset I made for Hippo's Atmospherics

He's about to release an update any minute now, so you're in luck if you wanna check out the latest

[past hare]

His install video is really easy to follow. I mean, I got it working and I'm a dummy
https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1036172060969410590

[sinful iris]

simple little dxml mod i whipped up to nuke the PAUSED string when pausing the game for screenshots in case anyone wants it

[runic stag]

this is big

[flat spruce]

Clown Car of Mercs in Wild Territory (Waiting for the storm to pass)

[clever badger]

nope

as long as you dont touch the MO2 side of the folder youre good

[wheat iris]

calm day in Jupiter

[wooden ermine]

if only i could be so grossly incandescent

[hoary mantle]

Damn

[dull crater]

This is why I play with screenspace and not volumetric. Can't stand that banding.

[dull crater]

Looks so good

[clever badger]

gotta love hippo and phrozac

[ruby agate]

If you’d make it public I’d rock that every day bro, it’s very pretty.

[strange finch]

It is already public but a part of atmospherics

[formal oak]

Creaming over the size and loot potential of this ISG squad

[past hare]

Purty. I want in 21:9. I wish more ppl played in 21:9

[timid merlin]

21:9 here

[past hare]

^ clear or partly skies?

[spark fractal]

this is partly skies, I need help this screenshot addiction is too much

[past hare]

Love this little mod! Would you be able to make one that makes the "weapon functional" message when inspecting weapons either fade away more quickly or not be visible at all? I wanna screencap my guns sometimes without text in the way.

[sinful iris]

possibly, it all depends on how the UI string is handled and how much is embedded in the engine code vs how much is in an xml file

[south jungle]

I would play 21:9 but my FPS goes

[flint mortar]

How much HP do chimeras have my god

I've been chasing it with a knife for five minutes now

[flint mortar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1067069763379024034/1067207900528902278/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/805263673220268052/1067208300002803774/image.png

[south jungle]

Same spot but now -30 FPS (21:9)

And 1080P

[past hare]

-30 fps going from 2560x1440 to 3440x1440? Damn.

[south jungle]

I mostly play on 1920x1080, 2560x1440 I only get with DSR

[south jungle]

Can you spot image difference or minimal to no effect?

[tired stone]

as someone with a widescreen, the struggle is real with resolution

fps tanks

[weary slate]

You're going to have to tell me how.

[sinful iris]

I can: https://imgsli.com/MTQ5ODE2

check the wall texture detail and the metal structure shadow

and this is without even zooming in

or really just about anything

now granted since you're using DSR this is going to be downscaled back to 1080p (assuming your native is 1080p) so the differences might appear less at the final display, but there's clearly more raw info there (1.78x more info and hence a significant hit to fps)

[past hare]

Hard to tell when both images are the same size and have been through some form of rescaling, but looking closely, you can spot subtle differences in the deets. You'd be able to see how much better a 1440 image is than 1080p one when on a native 1440p display

[sinful iris]

you'll see more detail downscaling as well for sure

here's an example of 1080p vs 1440p -> 1080p downscaled using adaptive method... the downscaler (which DSR/DLDSR has a component heavily involved with) will simply have more data to work with upon arriving at the same native resolution, however in this case it's obviously more subtle than straight 1080p vs 1440p native: https://imgsli.com/MTQ5ODE4

not only will this help with retaining sharpness and details of that which is downscaled it'll also help with anti-aliasing

[runic stag]

well, there's your problem

get a .45 acp gun and use hydrashock

[flint mortar]

That's wasting ammo, knifing chimeras is one of the easiest things

[runic stag]

[flint mortar]

Try knifing a snork versus a chimera, chimeras only leap

Hell even a izlom / fracture

[weary slate]

I got into a knife fight earlier with a chimera because it spawned in cordon (lucky, or unlucky I guess) and I had basically no ammo as I just started. I spent so long beating it and then it somehow aggro'd onto my companion who was standing farther away, killed him and I died in the black screen when the tourist safari quest failed. Feels bad

[flint mortar]

It's like bloodsucker ai where if you chase them their ai breaks

[south jungle]

Would you say its a fair trade running 1440P between 45-60 FPS vs 1080P 60-90 FPS?

[sinful iris]

Nah.

Definitely try to stay above 60. What kind of gpu?

[random parrot]

a nice looking rainy morning

[timid merlin]

are you using DSR ?

[past hare]

No. 3440x1440 SMAA and TFAA

[desert yew]

Kinda makes me want to install reshade back and try out the preset

(but 20 fps hit is not worth it )

[past hare]

What textures are you using?

[runic stag]

vanilla

Aydin's dying autumn trees & grass

[mild axle]

pc specs?

[quartz cape]

anyone have a fix for this darkness issue? already tried deleting shader cache

[south jungle]

2060 Super

[clever badger]

Love it!

[sinful iris]

yeah you won't be able to do 1440p and rtgi with that card... it's a pick one or other type deal

[lunar crane]

Loners are easy to fool, just dress up a dead member of Clear Sky. But I can’t get to the Clear Sky base, they start shooting. Started as bandit In the swamps.

[echo flame]

dont lose your head sanya

[compact wedge]

drip

[topaz rapids]

pretty good i guess, i7-12700, rtx 3090, 32 GB RAM

[clever badger]

i guess?

those are high ass specs, youll be at top for 2 years or so

[topaz rapids]

i hope so - but the tech flys there is already the 4k series - but yeah i should be fine 🙂

[gloomy sun]

new Hippo update hits different!!

[neat plank]

mod name&

?*

[gloomy sun]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1036172060969410590

[past hare]

I know they're static but the skyboxes in this always impress. I can't wait for the day we get a Stalker game that has fully dynamic, volumetric clouds like in RDR2 or Horizon Forbidden West.

[fervent summit]

what settings do you have?

[chilly halo]

Looks like grass cranked to max

[slender saddle]

Hippo Reshade (phrozac preset) + A.D.E.G.A.

[pale falcon]

Stalker 2 leaks

[somber sable]

So eerie 👌

[past hare]

Hd Models?

[runic stag]

give

[compact wedge]

a mix of hd/gunslinger(exp meshes)/azetrix

[past hare]

Haven't heard of the other 2

[compact wedge]

these are azetrix

https://vk.com/azetrix_group

[past hare]

I NEED THEM

[compact wedge]

i was 'porting' them to anomaly, but got kinda bored and it's half done

[past hare]

Are you merging them in some way or just loading one after another?

Oh, I C

[compact wedge]

the models are directly compatible with anomaly, since it's COP based

[past hare]

Please let me know if you ever finish

[compact wedge]

but the problem is in the .xml for each faction, you need to rename the files or change the path inside each .xml to make each model be able to spawn

[past hare]

That's far above my pay grade

Imma Luddite

[compact wedge]

since azetrix is made for COP, factions like cs/unisg/renegades/bandits don't have models, instead you need to use HD models and also grab some extra that expedition grabbed from another model

[past hare]

And you figured this all out?

[compact wedge]

it's not that hard, but it's tiresome to open blender and load all models + textures for each faction and go deciding which goes in what tier for that npc and if they look well in game

for example i can't assign a exo model visual to a duty_1 npc

it should be a duty_4 npc

well i can, but then you will have a 'novice' duty which is a exo lol

[past hare]

Well, if you could teach me, maybe I could help? I have Blender

If it's just monkeywork

[compact wedge]

i can, but i have all the files extracted from expedition db files and azetrix all over different mods folders

i need to organize them first to try to share

[past hare]

Alright. Well, lmk

I love the look of the more up-to-date models

[compact wedge]

yeah they look good, but sadly there isn't that much variety for factions

so far i kinda mixed the good looking hd models with azetrix so they look similar in style and quality

but got stuck on loner faction since they have +100 meshes in the folder (the rest have 20-40 max)

so i just said fuck this and never opened blender again lol

[past hare]

Lol. I don't really care about lore. I know nothing about the factions. I just want the game to look good

[compact wedge]

another big problem is optimization, i haven't even tested the fps/gpu/cpu usage compared to dux or vanilla models
and the famous corrupted HD models, so theres a chance that someone playing can get a save corrupted due to a corrupted model

[past hare]

Legit concern

Are there "corrupted" models in HDM or just extremely heavy and inefficient models? I've read that some have dense meshes where they aren't needed.

[compact wedge]

im not 100% sure, i just read a modder post that about hd models and kinda makes sense with the amount of empty stack crashes i saw people report when they were using hd models

also read that some models have 4k textures beneath crappy helmet models/textures

so yeah, performance is kinda heavy

[past hare]

Yup, that's what I've read

There's this one in the workshttps://www.moddb.com/members/kvma

[rancid vale]

still tweaking the LUT but i'm stoked with how my reshade is looking on cloudy/hazy days

[strange finch]

Release!

[rancid vale]

soon!!

[rancid vale]

honestly this is the effect that makes it work

[strange finch]

Yeah FGFX is nice be careful as it can introduce banding in the sky at certain times of the day, unless you have it in between reveil top and bottom

but I'm sure you know what you're doing

🤌

[strange finch]

Looks good, what is this?

[rancid vale]

sorta 🤪 i do use deband + film grain so its not too bad

[compact wedge]

lauta_ro shaders & atmospherics

jk, your shader/weather cfg and graupel + aydin grass tweaks

[strange finch]

Can I use your screenshots for moddb the next time I update?

[compact wedge]

yeah np

[strange finch]

thank you

will give you credit

[sinful iris]

I have a feeling this is a save that’s loading an NPC using an already corrupted model somehow. I don’t know the exact save format but it’s unlikely they would be saving data related to actual models in the save itself. More likely an instance of something associated with a model in usage but said model could be swapped back out or fixed.

[compact wedge]

yea but idk if it's even possible to track down the corrupted npc model

since all you get is a empty stack trace

[sinful iris]

Anything is possible given a debugger. Just need a save reproducing the behavior reliably.

[tame cave]

(Not sure if this is the place to ask but) Is there any "Spring or Summer" Texture pack like there is for Autumn and Winter?

(something with a lot of green i mean, like the zone in the soviet movie)

[rancid vale]

beaut

[tardy sail]

Aydins Grass Tweaks Summer Edition, Summer Season Redux.

[past hare]

Aydin's Summer isn't really very green. Inigo is looking for a vibrant green like in Stalker.

[tardy sail]

Summer Season Redux then, by Fabio. It's still on his author page on moddb.

Yeah, forgot about Aydins latest desaturation tweaks on his summer textures :/

[tardy sail]

Or even Agressor reshade grass tweaks for a full-on almost neon-y green look.

[past hare]

Poison?

[compact wedge]

yup

[sinful iris]

thaaaaat girl is poooooiiiisssssooonnnn

[timid merlin]

❤️

[tame cave]

thank you two @past hare @tardy sail ill check the 3 of em out.

[compact wedge]

weird sway tho

[strange finch]

can't fix it :/

happens in any weather mod

[carmine relic]

Do I need both tour present and hippos reshade to get it looking like that?

[compact wedge]

yea np, setting sway to 0 disables it but obviously tree sway won't work

[strange finch]

yeah its a trade off

[compact wedge]

anyway, so far this is my favorite lookin preset

so, very nice work hippo

[carmine relic]

What would you say the biggest difference is between these, style wise?

[compact wedge]

hd models and azetrix?

[carmine relic]

Yeah

[compact wedge]

well i like the monolith/mercenary moedls from azetrix bc they look more beefy and kinda 'geared up' for zone dangers instead of loose clothes like hd moedls

and also trying to maintain the 'look' of og models, at least some of the moedls

[heady narwhal]

@compact wedge did you turn down the opacity or contrast on BHS?

[compact wedge]

most likely it's due to reshade effect

[heady narwhal]

Id like to turn down the contrast on it a lil, but i havent made an attempt yet

What could go wrong

[upper falcon]

Rounding up stash rewards in great swamps leads to some beautiful and terrifying moments

[past hare]

If by "that" you mean looking like the Badland or Poison preset people have been posting, yes. Hippo's providing the lighting and weather, the presets doing the color grading and filmic effects.

[mild axle]

reashade from the 2nd pic?

[fluid timber]

@past hare where can I get the poison preset it looks amazing?

[past hare]

It's included with Hippo's Atmospherics. There's a suite of presets to pick from.

[stoic yoke]

i really should look into Hippo's and the other relevant mods some of you guys ended up with some awesome looking environments

[past hare]

Hippo's Atmos and Badland. 5am Partly2

Hippo's Atmos and Poison. 5am Partly2

Hippo's Atmos and Zone. 5am Partly2

[warm sierra]

this literally looks like stalker 2, maybe even better https://www.stalker2.com/_nuxt/img/assets/pages/game/the_danger/03.jpg

[stoic yoke]

the Poison one looks a tad bit better than the others imo, the slightly warmer nuance of the filter

[past hare]

It can vary depending on the scene, but yeah, I think Poison looks especially nice in the swamp and elsewhere with Aydin's autumn grasses

[dark brook]

Yeah this one looks very good

[ornate wren]

I should not have driven into gravitational anomalies in a car

[verbal sundial]

I require access to your Gunslinger bolt and detector animations.
One of the best quality animations for these two things

[compact wedge]

grabbed them from the haze modpack

but will probably be released this week with the rythm the guy is releasing gunslinger stuff

[torpid elm]

Hi) You can give the link for this mods, i can't find A.D.E.G.A. What is it, grass mod? Look amazing

[torpid elm]

upd. I find grass mod. What is A.D.E.G.A.?

[tardy halo]

godamn which shader is this

[shy owl]

Wait until I'm done it, H.A.Z.E. use my very raw alpha version.

[timid merlin]

Hippos shader add on reshapes inc

[deep ridge]

👀 Hopefully that gets added to GAMMA eventually, all the various reanimations

[shy owl]

I do not think that Grok will refuse to use vanilla gun reanim.

[deep ridge]

Noticed you got a Groza reanimation, current model is a bit meh

So hopefully it gets added eventually for a better experience

[shy owl]

MP5, MP5SD pack also will out soon.

It has new models, animation.

[deep ridge]

I would use them already but I noticed that current releases are not GAMMA compatible? Or rather GAMMA is not compatible with them

[shy owl]

It is not difficult to adapt.

[shy owl]

Grok already add Sig, Toz to add list, so I'm think you will see it soon in G.A.M.M.A.

[past hare]

Reminding me of Metro Exodus ' Volga map, my favorite area in that game.

[compact wedge]

yeah because gamma uses a old WPO version

most recent weapon packs require latest WPO bc it has new script? things

[slender saddle]

All the details and instructions are here.
#1043020993687474186 message

[past hare]

O_0
https://www.pcgamer.com/metro-exodus-ukrainian-devs-release-full-modding-toolkit-in-first-update-since-war-began/

GAMMA on the 4A engine when? 🙂

[compact wedge]

hippo exodus weathers when

[wooden ermine]

i am willing this into the universe

[wooden ermine]

first thing i see in the steam metro forum

[deep ridge]

pffft

[past hare]

Absofuckinglutely!

[past hare]

I'm gonna pile in there lol

[wooden ermine]

crowdsourcing adderall for whoever is going to do this

[dark brook]

yeah I can't wait for that one

[dark brook]

In before I do it

||You wish ||

[deep ridge]

Will you be also adding the Groza reanimation Grok?

Since the current animations are a bit on the eh side

[dark brook]

#📎mods-added-for-next-build

[deep ridge]

Didn't see it there, that's why I asked

[dark brook]

check again

[deep ridge]

Got my confirmation now

[dark brook]

(yeah I forgot it)

[strange finch]

For adding these new weapons, would they require an updated WPO?

[dark brook]

No

[junior sleet]

Such a shmexy gun, one of my fav additions to the modpack

[orchid drum]

what weather pack are you using to get that glorious wind / snow particle effect

[compact wedge]

graupel

[spark fractal]

You read my mind of what I was going for

[past hare]

Where can I grab this? Can't find

[compact wedge]

EFP server

in custom textures channel

[past hare]

Are you using it in GAMMA?

[compact wedge]

yea

[past hare]

Oh boy. That's another rabbit hole to dive into lol. Being a latecomer to this community is like diving into the deepend after eating a platter of meatballs

[torpid elm]

Hi, What is this visual effect of the wind, please tell me?

[jade roost]

Do be my stsh of working guns lookin good?

[past hare]

Still chillin in the swamp getting merked by chimeras.

1. Badland
2. Poison Rep
3. New preset - Zone '79. Inspired by Tarkovsky's Stalker. Piknik was taken

[delicate sapphire]

Is it in efpwp?

[strange finch]

79 is just nice

and balanced

[spark fractal]

79 looks exciting damn

[strange finch]

@past hare for the vignette possibly make it to so the vignette only applies on the top and not the bottom so that it doesnt interfere with the hud such as your health and such

or use an effect to not have it affect the hud

[slate salmon]

preparing for a raid on rostok

[past hare]

I wish I could. As far as I can tell, any alteration to the vignette's shape/size applies uniformly. If I remove it from the bottom, it gets removed from the top.

[strange finch]

Ahhh I see, have you tried artistic vignette?

It's what I use for film

can be applied only to the sky

[past hare]

I've tried them all, and while some give that level of control, they all introduce banding. Regrade's does not.

[strange finch]

Ahh I see

good to know!

[reef lily]

U ain't needing that many

[past hare]

The banding isn't noticeable in brighter environs, just dark. Unfortunately for me in regard to reshade vignettes, I prefer my games to look gloomy and dark lol

[spark fractal]

Welcome to Zaton

[past hare]

I'll test this out though. It's been a bit since I messed around with ArtisticVignette.

[strange finch]

love this

[strange finch]

it's what I use for film but you defintely know what you're doing

so I trust you

[spark fractal]

The emission skies are so good now

[strange finch]

They were so annoying to change and tweak

because you cant do it in debug

you have to restart your game after every setting change

[spark fractal]

Its payed off, they are so god damn pretty to look at

[strange finch]

So storm1 and 2 are done, partly 1 and 2 are done I added some rain at odd hours of the day based on cloud cover. Clear 1 and 2 have had some slight color grading changes. Now I'm doing cloudy1 and 2 which Im thinking of adding some light snow particles in the air

what do you think?

[spark fractal]

Some light snow particles for cloudy would be a nice touch

[strange finch]

full steam ahead then

[spark fractal]

Itll add that slight weather variation for people who dont want full snow enviroments but can appreciate a little sprinkle

[strange finch]

Agreed

[junior sleet]

What?

[delicate sapphire]

Nothing

Thought I was in efp chat

[compact wedge]

i said above your message what i used

[torpid elm]

Oh. Thank you, sorry for not being attentive, I don't know English very well

[amber seal]

Had a mercenary contract on this guy in front of me.... a room full of allied Loners.
Never become friends with a merc, you might just be their next bounty.

I tossed a nade in the middle and put a round in any that survived

[past hare]

@strange finch I think I found a nice middle ground. Seems ArtisticVignette has been improved since last I tried it as I don't see banding, though I haven't thoroughly tested it yet. The "sky only" option is great but I still want some vignette on the sides and bottom. To reduce the vignette on the bottom of the screen while still getting the look I want, requires two vignettes. Some tests with Zone. I like it.

1. None
2. Current
3. New

[torpid elm]

Well, i can find this mod "graupel" (if this is it..) But I have a question. How did you set it to autumn look? I would like to just install this cool wind/snow effect and that's it. How did you do that?

[compact wedge]

the snow effects are particles which are defined by weather .ltx

i basically have in this order
vanilla gamma mods
graupel
SSS
Aydin grass tweaks
hippo shader and atmospherics

Aydin grass tweaks will overwrite grass/trees textures
while hippo atmospherics will overwrite most of graupel weathers cfgs

[torpid elm]

Oh, ok. I try. Can you show what checkboxes to put when installing graupel?

[rapid comet]

Is it possible to make a similar effect with the enhanced shaders color grading? Would it take a lot? I really don't like reshade 😅

But your presets look great

[compact wedge]

probably this, i don't remember

[torpid elm]

Well, it's don't work for me(

[past hare]

No idea. If ES has a vignette though, it'll undoubtedly be better than reshade for not affecting the UI.

[compact wedge]

u need to merge

thunderbolts_collection.ltx with the one from graupel with the one from 19- horror overhaul - desman

[strange finch]

Not at the moment but SSS will include bloom, CA, etc within it in the future

[rapid comet]

Yeah that's true, CA?

[strange finch]

Chromatic aberration

@past hare @rapid comet my convo with tabs about this.

Tab is the creator of SSS if you didn't know phroZac

[torpid elm]

That's work, thanks)

[rapid comet]

Oh sweet, yeah all of that would be damn useful, bloom is really the only thing is miss from not using reshade, and CA and vignette would be lovely too

[torpid elm]

you use Badland or poison version preset?

[nova basin]

hippo reshade lookin great

[torpid elm]

Can you show me your brightness and reshade settings? It looks different to me, not so saturated

[past hare]

CA, Bloom, and Vignette are all very exciting. My only concern is that those things will be out of the hands of reshaders and fully on the lighting and weathers side if I want to take advantage of the benefits of SSS implementation, making presets less customizable(in regard to those effects). Meaning, to get the look I want, I'd have to be able to edit those parameters within SSS because I can't expect users of my presets to do that. I guess I need to learn to work with SSS...brings me back to the days of tweaking ENBs

[strange finch]

It will all be in the mcm so people can configure it ingame

To their liking and such

[past hare]

It'll be a bit of work on Tabs part to match how robust those things are in reshade, but the benefits of not affecting UI are too good.

[strange finch]

Exactly it'll be interesting to see

[grizzled heath]

i liked the idea u brought up with volumetric clouds. u can probably make a sky shader with that

[past hare]

Oh, it won't be me, lol. I have no clue how do do anything beyond reshade. I hope someone does it! And while they're at it, add in some more advanced parallax ground textures to the game. I'm so envious of Boris parallax for Skyrim and FO4.

[flint mortar]

who needs any gear when you just have companions

(im still a rookie with a starting pistol and leather jacket)

[onyx mauve]

What are you using because it’s gorgeous 😱

[sinful iris]

depending on the shader and how involved it is you can also port it to the game's shaders in a similar way people port reshade shaders to enb

[sinful iris]

Well boris also had to add a parallax shader as part of the work and all the textures need to be updated to take advantage of said shader... we have native parallax in modern xray

[clear jackal]

so do i use SSDO and not HBAO in GAMMA? (because of SSS)

[sinful iris]

use SSDO, period

[spark fractal]

Using hippos shaders and atmospherics with phroZacs reshade / Adega and Aydins grass tweaks and trees

[onyx mauve]

Phrozac’s is badland, right? Is there a link anywhere for that?

[spark fractal]

@onyx mauve Yeah his badlands preset, its included within #1036172060969410590

[onyx mauve]

Oh, I didn’t even realize 🤦🏻‍♂️ Thank you!

[clear jackal]

is tfaa in hippos some fake TAA baiscally?

[spark fractal]

No worries G, enjoy

[past hare]

Yeah, it was a nice surprise to see that. However, Anomaly's parallax is a light touch. I'm talking deep, complex parallax like in current ENB and games like Plague Tale Requiem. Imagine a partially snowy ground texture, with muddy footprints and soggy detritus. The depth! Lol

[clear jackal]

can you link aydins grass?

[past hare]

No link, I'm afraid. I'm lazy and simple, so Hippo is picking up my slack 😂

[past hare]

Real TAA. It actually works. But it's early days and requires CMAA2 and DRME to function.

[sinful iris]

monolith/Anomaly also has tessellation, although i'm not sure how much it's being utilized right now.

[spark fractal]

#1053707300080209961 Look in the pins top right for the downloads and instructions

[past hare]

Oh wow. So the potential is there. When was the Monolith engine updated to 64-bit?

Er, X-Ray

[sinful iris]

With monolith basically although I believe there were some proto-monolith engines in there somewhere that might've also done similar... the history is hazy

[onyx mauve]

Lmao I’ll reinstall it and apply the reshade. Using majestic weatherfx right now but want to see something gloomy

[past hare]

It's funny because HippoS actually brightens things up a lot from vanilla GAMMA. Good for colorgrading though as it gives us more range to work with.

[strange finch]

Next update will have more gloom

stormy1/2

partly1/2 are getting lower sun values slightly

and cloudy2 will be more gloomy

[strange finch]

But yeah brighter in half the spots and makes colorgrading easier

[onyx mauve]

I haven’t tried hippoS yet, only hippoR because I too, am simple

[past hare]

Those are Reshade presets. What I meant by HippoS are the shaders and the only required part of his mod. Typing cfg_load hipposr in console will get you the brighter lighting profile no Reshade needed. Sorry, I don't know all the lingo for this stuff. I'm simple!

[broken onyx]

it's cfg_load hippoS, it's the shader preset, it requires no reshade, you actually disable reshade for it

hippo's video explains it in more detail

it works wonders if you can't afford the FPS for or don't want to use the reshade

[onyx mauve]

So spooky, I love it

[patent plover]

better

[tribal mica]

Can anyone share some hideout screenshot? Want to get some ideas.

[frigid folio]

Stormy day in the Zone. Gamma is magical. 🙂

[vague sand]

such a beautiful but spooky game

[compact wedge]

CWWP preview
||btw AUG is the same weapon, can change 'skin' in game with camo shader ||

[past hare]

Which preset? And also, what gun in the last 3?

[compact wedge]

CWWP AUG

you can change the skin of it with in game menu, the weapon item is the same

so no need for ak (duty) or ak (freedom) variants with this, i guess

[south jungle]

Lauta running the game on 4K or what

[compact wedge]

making my 2060 workout

[south jungle]

Gonna grab that settings also running 2060 and nowhere close to this

[compact wedge]

nah, it's not even playable on my setup, just using for showcase

playing with 20-30 fps with the reshade enabled but the campfire location gives me insane stutter for some reason no matter if it's turned or not

just by looking at the campfire the frametime increases a lot

[south jungle]

Only ground and sky look for super FPS

[compact wedge]

nah, getting close to walls or ground instantly begins to kill my fps lol, sky is the only salvation

[south jungle]

I Tried running 21:9 but 30fps loss also

[past hare]

Is that a preset or a new lighting mod? The spec on those guns looks real nice.

[compact wedge]

probably the model/textures? no idea

[surreal wharf]

When pigs fly lol

[sinful iris]

just a simple balanced day...

[past hare]

What weather is that? I never seem to get those skies and I have all weathers enabled.

[sinful iris]

just clear1 hippo

there were some pissed off fractured shouting evil sounding stuff below me while i took that shot so maybe that helped

[clear gyro]

I remember that CA was posted by LVutner time ago. Also FideltyFX-CAS (adaptative sharpening). I think it uses the open-source .h file and invoked from "combine_2_naa.ps".
I have the discord post link, but "messages can't be loaded".
Btw I saved the CAS code (I tested and worked :D).
I think I could re-create, do you wan't it for test?

[spark fractal]

Good ol' morning emission

[dark brook]

@plucky oak please fix the Batman logo on the P90

It has been there since 1.5y

[dark brook]

In NVidia panel, activate the low latency parameter

That did jt for me

[dark brook]

Btw Exodus shaders got released alongside the SDK

[clear gyro]

AMD CAS is from github (open source). I will use a shadertoy CA simple implementation

[plucky oak]

No

Lol

The texture Is like that, also thats p90 devgru not normal one

[flint sparrow]

sun and rain are looking nice

[timid merlin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm-ijBrDeIE&ab_channel=Breaking_raven

[torpid elm]

beautiful😍 what is this reshade?

[spark fractal]

The reshade is phroZacs badlands preset in Hippos Shaders and Atmospherics

[torpid elm]

I also use this reshade. Can you show me your brightness and reshade settings? It looks different to me

[spark fractal]

My brightness is default 1.05 and gamma 1.05 when you load hipposr - The reshade settings is default havent changed a thing, I am playing 3325x1871 dlsr which might be why

Also time of day and weather effects the reshade, alot of the time its more blue but in clear weather its abit brighter

[torpid elm]

Thanks

[spark fractal]

[strange finch]

Sure

[worthy compass]

?????

aftermath

[worthy compass]

Garbage

[warm sierra]

@worthy compass did u use dx8?

[past hare]

Moody asf

[worthy compass]

Yes

[polar agate]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1044327700724207617/1068183628732960818/image.png?width=854&height=480

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1044327700724207617/1068184669234942163/image.png?width=854&height=480

[strange finch]

F.L.E.X

[compact wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/metro-metro-exodus-weapons-metro-eeapons-gif-19661586

[warm sierra]

nice

[orchid drum]

Why you gotta tease us with these shiny guns 😢

[compact wedge]

showcase baby

[clever badger]

Its metro exodus

[plucky oak]

no lol

[past hare]

Huh? That gif is totally Exodus

[slender saddle]

this is what I use atm

[covert void]

Hi Guys. How can I disable the HUD fully, so i can take screenshots?

[spark fractal]

H + Enter numpad

[covert void]

H + Enter doesnt do anything. If i press only H, it only disables the body health. The Psy, ammo and firing mode stays

[warm sierra]

no no, press H. then press numpad enter, not both.

[covert void]

@warm sierra Still, the Psy meter stays

[warm sierra]

are u pressing this key?

also dont forget to unlock the numpads

[covert void]

Ye, the numpad is unlocked and the i am pressing that key

[warm sierra]

in-game without pausing (not in menu)?

[covert void]

Yes

[warm sierra]

weird af. maybe ask #🔨base-gamma-support

[covert void]

Thank you for your patience @warm sierra !

[unique pagoda]

Upscaled wallpapers if anyone wants them. Just open in browser and download for 4k quality. Unreal Engine 5 is looking so damn good. I really wish the Stalker 2 dev team picked up @dark brook. I feel like he alone knows what the game needs and what we want. But i guess we always have the modding community to help fix things.

[grizzled heath]

i think some of these are concept arts or renders cause there aint no way

[unique pagoda]

Most likely renders but i bet not too far off.

[past hare]

I'm inclined to believe those images are at least mostly real. I mean, have you played Metro Exodus or Chernobylite on a beefy rig? UE5 is packing some tasty tech. I think Stalker 2 will be one of the first genuine showcases of truly "next-gen" visuals.

[unique pagoda]

I was just about to mention Metro Exodus. If it looks like Metro Exodus, that's more than enough.

[warm sierra]

the flower field is just

still pretty skeptical about the game

[grizzled heath]

that first screenshot is bogus

the foliage has too much detail imagine fps there? it looks painted

[past hare]

Speaking of graphics, I've played a few branches of Anomaly...GAMMA, Dark Signal, Expedition. I'm curious, from the videos I've watched it seems like GAMMA is the best looking of the various modpacks, or it could be that the people posting are all modded up and rocking presets. Are there certain Anomaly modpacks known to generally look better than others?

[spark fractal]

Piggybacking this to see what comes up, I want to try EFP but I cant seem to make it look as nice as gamma so just sticking with that for now

[compact wedge]

Im sure you can replicate 100% each different look in each modpack

Its just a matter of cfg files and reshade nothing else

In the end its modded anomaly so there wont be any secret or shader from another mod engine

[past hare]

Could be. Would not be surprised if they dressed it up a bit on some monster machine. I can believe it though. Extreme settings to become the new "Can it run Crysis" standard. Current games made by teams big and smallish are looking almost as impressive. The aforementioned Chernobylite looks amazing, and A Plague Tale: Requiem looks nuts.

[past hare]

I guess I'm more asking about their vanilla states. If any one of them starts off stronger than the rest at default if that makes sense.

[unique pagoda]

I'm sure if the first screenshot is real, the engine is paused, super sampled, and every setting cranked in 4k. So yeah, not a playable setting but looks damn nice lol.

[compact wedge]

of all screenshots the first one seems the most fakr

like, im sure location and stalker(with tank on back)its there, but the ecologist and weapon/hands looks added on top

[grizzled heath]

they are cheating with the trailers pretty bad aswell

the first gameplay trailer they did was not in engine at all

its still gonna look crazy on UE5

[unique pagoda]

UE5 is pretty impressive tho. Lumen is its new real time lighting system that handles colored bounce light and reflections and it's pretty optimized less demanding than conventional ray tracing. UE5s new mesh rendering system can also handle static meshes with millions of triangles far better than any other engine can. So for those of us with modern hardware, I think we are in for a treat.

[past hare]

Lumen, Nanite, and Metahuman are all going to factor bigly in the future of game dev

And I mean bigly wiggly if we're getting technical

[spark fractal]

Whats this silencer from? Havent seen that before

[compact wedge]

probably a silencer for a bas pistol

[clever badger]

looks like the lebedev

[timid merlin]

YAS

[azure solstice]

what basic light settings do you use?

[past hare]

We got a Fury Road preset in the oven here?

[strange finch]

its just SR lol

in clear1

[rancid vale]

how do y'all feel with this slightly green look i'm messing with

like boosted greens and warms, desaturated blues

[strange finch]

Release it

[rancid vale]

lol

omg immediately got deleted by a lurker after posting this

[strange finch]

Is this on the latest version of atmospherics?

[rancid vale]

i think i am one behind maybe? i just set it up for the first time last week

[strange finch]

Yeah update and test it on there

Im not updating it for a couple days its in a good spot now

[rancid vale]

cool will do!

and i will release this weekend 🙂

some more green preset

[analog marlin]

holy shit

[coral creek]

guys the grass is big problem if want stalker stream?

[tardy sail]

What grass/tree mods did you use there?

[violet tulip]

This looks like stalker 2 imo

Crazy good looking

[tardy sail]

that tree texture is doing the lords work over here 😂

[flat spruce]

"WHY WONT YOU DIE SIDIVORICH!?!?"

"** N E I M R O F F V O D K A SON **"

[dark brook]

Because I'm a map prop son

[fast pewter]

Slowly getting my game to look how I want it to.

[dark brook]

[past hare]

The lighting on the gun and hands seems off. I think it has to do with SSS? I recall this being an issue a few days ago. Are you using the latest SSS? 14.2

[spark fractal]

@past hare This reshade is like crack I swear to god

[past hare]

Badland?

[spark fractal]

yeeeeeh boi

[gusty turret]

Any way to turn down the shinyness here? Gloss factor is already all the way down

[worthy compass]

too bright AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[gusty turret]

ayy nice battle network/NT warrior profile pic

[warm sierra]

is this dx8?

[ember scaffold]

!spreadsheet

[warm sierra]

@ember scaffold go to #🤖bot-commands and type !spread there

[ember scaffold]

thanks

[stone harbor]

you mind if i use this for a thumbnail? *

[past hare]

Looking good! I love the colorgrade of the last 4

[lunar crane]

MultiLUT "Book of Eli"

[past hare]

What ground textures are you using?

[lunar crane]

own Autumn Season redux(last two screenshots)

[clever badger]

guys is this fog normal, how it should be?

[delicate sapphire]

yes i think

not sure tho

its very THICK

[clever badger]

right?

[delicate sapphire]

try messing with the settings

[past hare]

Good and thick(what she said) but maybe a bit bright?

[viscid zephyr]

poor guy was just trying to vibe

[past hare]

Grim and Zone79, ADEGA, Aydin's Autumn Grass(only), and Hippo Atmospherics 1.42.069

[delicate sapphire]

what gun is that?

[strange finch]

fnx

[past hare]

Out of game now. Not sure. I think I looted it off some dude in Pripyat. I'll let you know when I'm back on.

[stoic yoke]

isn't that the FN-X Tactical or something like that ? i see them drop from bodies every now and then, even used one myself before switching to Korth

[spark fractal]

Korth is king

[runic stag]

FNX 45 Alternate

Korth is indeed king though, best .45 ACP pistol

[clear jackal]

lacking in the grass department a lil bit

[clear jackal]

where do i find that

enjoying the fnx so far

[runic stag]

get lucky when looting stalkers

[clear jackal]

oh its a revolver

[runic stag]

no

[past hare]

I just like the FNX because it's the tan Phoenix gun, comes tricked out and looks good while holding a device in your left hand

[delicate sapphire]

Sidorovich has a beast pc

[past hare]

Nah, that's Sakharov's bitcoin mining rig

[modest mortar]

finally got my reshade wrapped up and able to maintain 60fps @ 4k on my 3080 ti. now i can finally dig in to GAMMA 😄

[past hare]

Curious what your grass and AA settings are 🤔

[modest mortar]

i use motion estimation + TFAA like in your presets, but with different settings in TFAA, offset by qUINT sharpen for more aggressive sharpening after the TFAA pass

anomaly/gamma needs seriously aggressive AA

[past hare]

Yeah it does. But what are your grass and in-game AA settings? I also have a 3080 Ti and 40k60 doesn't seem possible but maybe I just need to drop some settings.

[strange finch]

Built on atmospherics?

[modest mortar]

nah, i made my own, but it's really nothing but the pd80 shadows/midtones/highlights shader and the TFAA setup

[strange finch]

You made your own weather? That’s sick

[modest mortar]

oh i thought you meant just the Reshade. no, that's default Gamma (well, unless Atmospherics is one of the included Gamma mods, i'm not sure on that one 😄 )

[open citrus]

@strange finch your reshade and everything btw. thanks for all the work you do

[strange finch]

In the future but not at the moment. Might be included on the next update

So you could try building on that to future proof. But you done have to

[modest mortar]

grass i have at halfway on the density slider (which equates to details value of 0.25 in the .ltx file i think) and maxed distance of 250m. no in-game AA (SMAA has a performance hit but no visual impact whatsoever once reshade is on)

[modest mortar]

tbh i saw the 20 min install video and got scurred 😛

also i use 2048 shadow res, which helped maintain 60fps vs the 4096 setting. all the other settings are maxed except sun shadow detail at 'high' and sun rays at 'low'

[past hare]

SMAA has barely a hit but I agree, doubling up on reshade AA methods works best. It's the grass density that kills. Mine is set to around 80%.

[modest mortar]

granted i have not been to many areas of the game yet so there certainly could be some that are more demanding that i'd need to readjust for

[strange finch]

lol you’re good

It’s easy

I just take my time explaining things that why its long

[modest mortar]

yeah, the first time i ran Anomaly (vanilla) i cranked that to max (ya know, 3080 Ti and all...) and LOL'd at like 2 fps. took me a while to realize it was the grass density setting

[strange finch]

Thank you!

[modest mortar]

ok, i'll give it a go then 🙂

[strange finch]

Lmk if you have any issues. I’d like to try out your reshade on atmospherics at some point

[modest mortar]

sure, like i said it's nothing fancy compared to what you and phr0zac do :p also it's designed with an OLED display in mind so i can't say how good it would look on non-OLED. night time looks beautifully stunning with my preset though... 😄

[shy lily]

Apologies for the late reply go ahead!

[strange finch]

My next monitor upgrade will be mini led

[modest mortar]

i know mini led is great too, but i dunno - can they do 'infinite' contrast i.e. 0 nits blacks? that's the real game changer with OLED. i've had this TV for about a year now and it still keeps blowing me away on a daily basis

in games like STALKER that emphasize darkness, it's mind blowing

sorry to go off-topic though, i suppose we should continue in #╓☢stalker-chat or whereever :p

[acoustic swallow]

Well i Finally got Around to installing hippos shaders etc and looks much better and amazing! ✅ ❤️ @strange finch

[past hare]

Haha. Funnily enough, it was that "3080 Ti pride" that kept me from lowering the grass density setting. I was like Bilbo Baggins with my precious grass density. You've inspired me to drop it down a few notches.

[modest mortar]

even at 1440p that setting murdered my frame rate if maxed out

at 4k it was literally a slideshow 😛

i think that might partially be caused by the volumetric sun rays. they interact with the grass objects, so with density maxed or very high, that's an insane amount of work that sun ray shader is doing. i noticed the grass shadows toggle is irrelevant if you have volumetric rays turned on because they literally cast shadows from the rays themselves.

[strange finch]

Sorry meant to say micro led with is the next big improvement for oled like monitors

https://youtu.be/evWpM1bfWK0

[modest mortar]

ahhh yes, gotcha. awesome 😄

[clever badger]

Dayum it looks sexy

Gimme wat shader you using and wat not

I like the minimap positioning too

[open citrus]

Hippo's Atmospherics and Aydin's Grass, Round Compass Minimap

[clever badger]

Once I reinstall ill give em a try

[normal dawn]

Are flying zombies new mutants I haven't seen?

[past hare]

That $5 RTGI...no regerts

[open citrus]

are you running it in normal gameplay? i'm liking your presets in Hippo's stuff btw

[sinful iris]

nothing to do with that and everything to do with just rendering a shitload of objects and the draw call cost... i'd stick to 0.3-0.4 for density at the absolute lowest

make sure you enable both grass shadows and sun detail or you're not actually getting full grass shadowing (and prepare to disable it because you won't maintain 4k/60 after)

[past hare]

I have RTGI on always. The only thing I'll switch off is the trio of effects for TFAA. That's only for when I use the leafless trees.

[sinful iris]

also use RTGI myself... at 1440p of course..

3080ti+4k+rtgi ==

my power limit is even cranked to the max with the card undervolted a bit

[past hare]

Yeah, I'm threading the needle at 3440 x 1440 with a 3080 Ti. At 2560 x 1440 I'm able to run RTGI and TFAA and still maintain 60. No need for TFAA at 4k.

[open citrus]

yeah gotcha, i can barely maintain 60 fps with RTGI on. thinking it's just not worth it on my 3070 at 1440p

might have to mess with settings more

[past hare]

Yeah, those two effects aren't cheap. I have them on toggles for a reason as they can eat up to 20 fps on my rig.

[heady narwhal]

What is rtgi?

Also the comparison shots are really nice

[past hare]

Thanks. RTGI = Marty McFly's Real-Time Global Illumination shader

[modest mortar]

RTGI's visual impact is so minor and not worth it imho compared to its performance cost

it's basically just AO with color and since Anomaly has beautiful looking HBAO (and other AO options) built in, it's just not worth the FPS it eats up. again, that's all just my personal opinion though.. and we know how those are 😉

[digital haven]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/631313052679143445/1067046917126758440/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/334111946464952322/1068025825494052935/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/334111946464952322/1067992332605071481/image.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/334111946464952322/1068026602547593286/image.png

[clever badger]

Also are you using its reshade?

[open citrus]

yep, i'm running reshade with it. in my screenshot i was on Hippo's FILM2 preset

[clever badger]

Oh alright Ill try it out cause it looks really nice in your screenshots

[open citrus]

yeah it's generally easy to get going, Hippo has an installation video.

[heady narwhal]

Ill attempt hippo shader once next update is out

I think the game looks great as is tho

[worthy compass]

DX10

Trying out the settings from the #╭📖faq

[past hare]

Yeah but if you want to take full advantage of SSS's features you need to use SSDO, so HBAO is off the table as SSS with RTGI(if you have the headroom) is a pretty potent combo. Expensive though, true.

[strange finch]

You wont have to attempt it, It'll be included in gamma by default

[past hare]

You're a made man, now!

[left mica]

L

[modest mortar]

where can i see all of SSS's features?

[past hare]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/screen-space-shaders

Trust me, HBAO isn't worth dropping SSS for

[heady narwhal]

Oh THATS where the rain puddles come from

[random shard]

hI Y'ALL anyone knows where can I find this BHS hud, it looks dope

[south jungle]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1065248535588634685

[autumn hawk]

how did you get the game to look so good, damn

[spark fractal]

All thanks to hippos S+A with phroZacs reshade, using aydins grass tweaks and trees

[orchid drum]

Ooooo that M1a EBR model looks way nicer then the one in gamma currently

Always enjoy seeing your screenshots